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Launched: StableRenters tracks NYC landlords

Posted by Ben Sacks on Feb 28, 2012 in Founder Chronicles | 0 comments

The 2011 PitchIt Challenge winner launches its first public beta with landlord information on 133,000 addresses in New York City.

NewsIt crowdsources DC subway investigation

Posted by Andrew Nachison on May 26, 2011 in Innovation, Journalism, Pitch It | 0 comments

If you live in Washington, DC, and can offer a little bit of your time, sign up and check out the project details. You can go down into the subway to see how long it takes to escape, or assist with mapping data and other text, photo and video tasks. NewsIt won our 2010 PitchIt Challenge, and we've been advising the project since then.

Introducing Meridian Stories

Posted by We Media on Mar 28, 2011 in Pitch It | 0 comments

Meridian Stories is designed as a YouTube-like environment, driven by regularly scheduled, global competitions between schools, around short-form storytelling using image, words, film and music.

Introducing Stable Renters

Posted by We Media on Mar 28, 2011 in Pitch It | 0 comments

Stable Renters will assemble a profile and score for every rental property and owner based on a history of violations, lawsuits, pending charges, bedbugs, ceiling leaks and more.

Introducing Longshot Media

Posted by We Media on Mar 28, 2011 in Pitch It | 0 comments

Longshot Media is a hybrid media company that harnesses the tools of the Web and social media to create a print-on-demaand magazine.

Call for entries: $50k for media startups

Posted by Andrew Nachison on Jan 11, 2011 in Pitch It | 1 comment

Entries are now closed for the 2011 We Media PitchIt Challenge. The challenge offers $50,000 in seed funding to help launch two innovative media and tech startups. Finalists will pitch their ideas at the We Media NYC conference.

SeeClickFix in The Guardian

Posted by Andrew Nachison on Jun 15, 2010 in Pitch It | 0 comments

Dan Kennedy wrote for The Guardian a flattering profile of SeeClickFix, one of the 2009 winners of our PitchIt investment challenge. Congratulations CEO Ben Berkowitz and crew - and stay tuned for more PitchIt later this summer.